Well at least you can consider it again when the housing market isn't SOOOOOO bad. The thought of a transfer for us is less frightning than actaully trying to sell this house...how do you keep a house of 5 in "showing" condition?

Yes, as I am in the thick of it as we speak, I too can attest to what a bitch moving and showing a house is. We put our house on the market in January and it sold three weeks later. I was shocked. That said, we did price it to sell and took a bit of a hit, but I figure that the owners of the house we bought took an even bigger hit! But, friends of ours around here have had their house listed for over a year - A YEAR! - and have shown it exactly twice.

I think you're most likely better off waiting if you can wait given the sucky market here in MA.

OK, so, since you're not moving right now, can you pull whatever strings are necessary to keep the housing market precisely as it is long enough for us to sell our tiny little house and buy a great-big-and-selling-for-too-little house?? Just another year....

Ugh... I had to show our last house while we lived in it. Four big, hairy dogs and a toddler. I confined them all to two rooms of the house at all times and wouldn't allow anyone to enter the house by the front door. I was a Nazi. I practically had ulcers. Thank GOD it sold in two days.

Your time will come, and when it does, the kitchen will be bigger and it will come with beautiful lighting. I just know it.